Two years ago Instagram launched its first photo

Instagram has skyrocketed to popularity for the photo sharing world since developers tested the first Instagram photo two years ago. The first photo is nothing extravagant, just a simple picture of a dog and a foot that was uploaded to an app called Codename.

Three months later in October 2010, Instagram became a public website and “over 50 million people have shared more than 1 billion photos on Instagram,” according to the company’s blog.

Tech Crunch reported that the app “was seeing under 10,000 downloads per day in the U.S.” but by April 2012, “Instagram was generating well over 100,000 downloads per day in the iTunes App.”

In April, Facebook announced its plans to buy Instagram for $1 billion and Mark Zuckerberg said in a post that “it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users.”

Questions have been posed about why Facebook would buy a company with no revenue but Forbes reported that Facebook may be making this investment because “it didn’t want a competitor to snap it up first” and “because most people are on Facebook to look at other people’s photos, and Facebook wants to keep it that way.”

Instagram is known for its varied list of photo filters that enhance, or as others may say, detract from photos.